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Offline Newindian

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good distance for flight shooting
« on: July 11, 2013, 02:35:16 am »
I recently got the chance to do this for the first time, I have no idea what my results mean. Arrow 400grains (May need to check that) with three inch feathers, bow is 48#@27", I was getting 148 yards with the wind( not directly behind probably 25° off) and 138 into it. Hopefully that's pretty good.
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Offline Joec123able

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Re: good distance for flight shooting
« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2013, 02:44:29 am »
That's not that bad at all I think it just depends on the bow tho I notice that most of the guys shooting the big heavy warbows seems to shoot sometimes well over 200 yards me I've only shot for distance once and got around 140 - 160 yards With my honey locust selfbow alittle over a year ago I think some of my newest bow could shoot further haven't shot any for distance yet
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Offline Marc St Louis

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Re: good distance for flight shooting
« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2013, 10:16:02 am »
It's decent but not great.  There's a lot of factors that can affect the distance you can get, angle of departure, loose, straight fletch or helical and more.  Your shooting about 8 or 9 GPP arrows so you should be able to get 170 ~ 180 yards with everything in tune, even more with a bow that is very efficient.
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Offline Newindian

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Re: good distance for flight shooting
« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2013, 02:45:30 pm »
My string probably didn't help much, overly twisted b-50
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Re: good distance for flight shooting
« Reply #4 on: July 11, 2013, 04:41:26 pm »
Cool Post Newindian! 

Marc, This sounds like a good subject for a PA artical...hint, hint.  ;) dpg
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